Optical Design Pathways to Fluidic Space-Assembled Reflectors & Dual-Configuration Spectrographs for Characterizing Exo-Earths

Enrico Biancalani, Edward Balaban, Ruslan Belikov +14

$\text{Fluidic Telescopes}$ | We present a conceptual framework for optically designing space-assembled telescopes whose primary mirror is formed $\text{in situ}$ via the enabl…